Eric Dondero is a US Navy Veteran, former Libertarian Party National Committeeman, Founder of
the Republican Liberty Caucus and fmr. Senior Aide to US Congressman Ron Paul R-TX. He is now a national Republican Political Consultant based in Houston, Texas.

Eric Dondero is a US Navy Veteran, former Libertarian Party National
Committeeman, Founder of the Republican Liberty Caucus and fmr. Senior Aide to
US Congressman Ron Paul R-TX. He is now a national Republican Political
Consultant based in Houston, Texas.

John Mitchel, LtCol, USAF (Ret

Eric, Although I m not an RLC leader, I can think for myself, and I m not buying what your selling. There s a strong case that Mitt and Rudy are simply

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, Aug 16 10:41 AM

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Eric,

Although I'm not an RLC leader, I can think for myself, and I'm not buying what your selling. There's a strong case that Mitt and Rudy are simply different wings of the same Neo-con bird of prey. And the same might be said of Fred Thompson, but that probably doesn't matter as there's only one candidate that has a snowball's chance in hell of beating Hillary,

Eric Dondero is a US Navy Veteran, former Libertarian Party National Committeeman, Founder of the Republican Liberty Caucus and fmr. Senior Aide to US Congressman Ron Paul R-TX. He is now a national Republican Political Consultant based in Houston, Texas.

westmiller@aol.com

Posted by: Marianne Stebbins marianne@q.com ... An endorsement is never a guarantee that someone will not change in the future ... nor even that they will

An endorsement is never a guarantee that someone
will not change in the future ... nor even that they will do
what they say they will do in their campaign.

I don't have an accurate historic record, but the RLC
has endorsed many candidates who turned out to be
"bad apples". That may include Romney, as well as
Fred Thompson. It does include Brian Bilbray, Duke
Cunningham, and John Doolittle of California [all were
convicted of bribery], and Mark Foley of Florida [who
resigned over youthful homosexual solicitations].

I don't see anything useful in trying to "hide" the
fact that endorsements were made *at the time* with
the facts available. Certainly, the state and national
boards that review candidates have never claimed
infallibility or precognition. It is a "mistake" only in
the sense that some people will use an illogical
"guilt by association" to fault our prior judgement.
If we limited endorsements to those candidates who
are 100% with us ... and we were certain that they
would always be with us ... we would never make
ANY endorsement.

Interesting link, and although I haven t seen it in the mainstream media, you can bet the Dems will roll it out after the primaries, although it wouldn t be

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Interesting link, and although I haven't seen it in the mainstream media, you can bet the Dems will roll it out after the primaries, although it wouldn't be too effective against Dr. Paul. Maybe his campaign should use it now?

An endorsement is never a guarantee that someonewill not change in the future ... nor even that they will dowhat they say they will do in their campaign.

I don't have an accurate historic record, but the RLChas endorsed many candidates who turned out to be"bad apples". That may include Romney, as well asFred Thompson. It does include Brian Bilbray, DukeCunningham, and John Doolittle of California [all wereconvicted of bribery], and Mark Foley of Florida [whoresigned over youthful homosexual solicitations] .

I don't see anything useful in trying to "hide" thefact that
endorsements were made *at the time* withthe facts available. Certainly, the state and nationalboards that review candidates have never claimedinfallibility or precognition. It is a "mistake" only inthe sense that some people will use an illogical"guilt by association" to fault our prior judgement.If we limited endorsements to those candidates whoare 100% with us ... and we were certain that theywould always be with us ... we would never makeANY endorsement.